Panama Canal & Gatun Lake
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 31st, 2007
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The Bay of Panama along the Panama Canal
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 30th, 2007
The Bay of Panama as seen from the Panama Canal. Can you spot the Bridge of the Americas?
Photo by Gerryd.
Panama Canal Administration Building
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 28th, 2007
EDIFICIO DE ADMINISTRACIÓN PARA EL CANAL DE PANAMÁ - This building was inaugurated on July 15, 1914, exactly a month before the Canal itself.
Photo by ginger.jengibre.
U.S. Navy and the Panama Canal
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 26th, 2007
U.S. Navy navigating through the locks of the Panama Canal in the early 1900s. The Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty, established November 18, 1903 between the United States and Panama, relinquished dominant control of the Canal Zone to the United States. In recent years, a new Panama Canal Treaty has been put in place. Since 2000, this new […]
Panama Canal Colon
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 25th, 2007
Observe the tiny bus and tiny car crossing the small bridge over the Panama Canal, and when you look further to the blue freight ship 26 meters (86 feet) higher up, it might fill you with wonder or give you the shivers.
Photo by lyng883.
Gatun Locks Panama Canal
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 23rd, 2007
A ship passing through the Gatun Locks of the Panama Canal. The Canal has three sets of locks (Miraflores, Pedro Miguel and Gatun), each of which has two lanes. The locks operate as water lifts which elevate ships in their transit of the channel across the Continental Divide to the level of Gatun Lake, which […]
A diagram of the Panama Canal
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 21st, 2007
The Panama Canal transverses the Isthmus of Panama in Central America, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean
Photo by Mr Wayne.
Getting through the Panama Canal
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 15th, 2007